YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The American Novel
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the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...
a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...
need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...
intelligent. She is made to remain aloof from all people in this relationship. The buzzards at this point could well be related to...
"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...
fiance Rosa (Williams and Garrett). Clara, in both the book and movie, is truly psychic and her powers are a intriguing feature ...
characterizations and an interesting and imaginative plot, and not simply the fantastical setting. These features are exemplifie...
ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...
spirits" (Brown, 2001, p. 49). The things we learn about Haitian culture can be disturbing (for instance, children go to work e...
Dickens appears to introduce Charles Darnays mother for the sole purpose of establishing her as the source for Darnays personal in...
This struggle is also seen in the character of Archer who is intrigued by her uniqueness. He is stifled by society and by the dema...
"blackness" and the sense that the darker a person is, the less worthy they are of gaining social acceptance. In fact, Pecola is ...
sense of conflict has to do with his fathers participation in an Easter Sunday service at the Ohatchee Methodist Church, a time wh...
states, "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickl...
assumed that both Haven City and the fairy universe are safe from Opal because she has been locked away in a psychiatric ward at J...
respect and seeks to learn from them, as he also provides spiritual guidance. Marks way of relating to the natives is starkly cont...
mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before" (Twain Chapter I NA). In examining this approach to language, we not...
Chatterleys Lover we have the story of a man who is incapacitated from the waist down and thus will never be able to make love to ...
to his sister, the only one he believes is young and innocent, will give him comfort. When he knows that she will not give him com...
to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts--sometime...
the form of communication outside of the classroom. "An accident of geography sent me to a school where all my classmates were wh...
a month for the sole purpose of procreation, they are now in a place where its very risky to be seen. But they are there at the C...
wants nothing more than to earn a decent living to provide for his wife Marie and their three daughters. He transports visitors o...
provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...
he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...
observation. The pear tree is a very powerful teacher for Janie. "Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in ...
student prefers to cite a movie. Additionally, as this writer/tutor knows nothing of the students background, for this assignment,...
us with a red sorghum field. This section presents the readers with a look at the region prior to the war. It is a story of a youn...
leans on her heavily for advice and help in maintaining the farm after her fathers death. In fact, Ruby helps Ada take care of her...
and dies. The plane crashes, but Brian manages to survive it by landing the plane in a lake. Brians journey begins. While he is ...